CVE-2005-2494: Kde

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

kcheckpass in KDE 3.2.0 up to 3.4.2 allows local users to gain root access via a symlink attack on lock files.

Affected products

• Kde Kde: version 3.2.0 only; version 3.2.1 only; version 3.2.2 only; version 3.2.3 only; version 3.3.0 only; version 3.3.1 only; …

Published 2005-09-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.